Part of my time in schools is spent following up on the learning support for our elearning students. In every school i go to, the structure for this looks slightly different and i don't believe any of our schools are doing it exceptionally well and all have room for improvement.
I have talked several times about the Roxborough model as something to aspire to, and had Principals look at this and discuss this with a view to improving their own practise. Yet how do you push this along in our schools? How can you constructively criticize without some guidelines to show you what is best practise in this area. What do you think are some criteria that show student support structures are in place & effective?
aligning student timetables where possible so they can study with other elearners (preferably those in their VC class)
partnering students with mentor teachers with an interest or skill in their subject area
timetabling students into a student support centre to provide space, time & adult support for non-VC times
VC coordinator/student support establishes & maintains regular communication with students eteachers
VC coordinator/student support has a logon to elearning student's online classsite (Moodle, KN)
elearning students VC timetable clearly available to all staff - students classroom teacher's take a note of that in their own planning & try to avoid those times for assessments
classroom teachers begin to make use of OLE (eg Moodle) to post students work so that those who miss (through VC, GATE, STAR, Sport, other reasons) are able to keep up with their work
I have talked several times about the Roxborough model as something to aspire to, and had Principals look at this and discuss this with a view to improving their own practise. Yet how do you push this along in our schools? How can you constructively criticize without some guidelines to show you what is best practise in this area. What do you think are some criteria that show student support structures are in place & effective?